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Science
Social Sciences
1701
Jodi Rios, "Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Po...
An interview with Jodi Rios
50 min
1702
Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (R...
An interview with Regina Rini
59 min
1703
K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: ...
An interview with Kevin Young and Michael Schwartz
128 min
1704
Adam Fabry, "The Political Economy of Hungary: ...
An interview with Adam Fabry
55 min
1705
Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial Histo...
An interview with Jean Casimir
78 min
1706
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolit...
An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas
79 min
1707
J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretc...
An interview with J. Daniel Elam
104 min
1708
Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution:...
An interview with Matt Christman
65 min
1709
Isar P. Godreau, "Scripts of Blackness: Race, C...
An interview with Isar Godreau
71 min
1710
Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Ch...
An interview with Stuart Elden
40 min
1711
L. Layton and M. Leavy-Sperounis, "Toward a Soc...
An interview with Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis
72 min
1712
Ashley E. Lucas, "Prison Theatre and the Global...
One place that might surprise a lot of people is the popularity of performances staged by incarcerated persons...
60 min
1713
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min
1714
Rebecca Harrison, "The Empire Strikes Back" (Bl...
Harrison tells the story of the film’s production and reception, and analyses the film’s on-screen representations...
42 min
1715
Rosemary-Claire Collard, "Animal Traffic: Livel...
Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital....
82 min
1716
Adam Kotsko, "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Po...
Neoliberalism’s Demons posits we can best understand neoliberalism through the lens of political theology...
75 min
1717
Andrea Jain, "Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of ...
Jain examines the interconnectedness between global spirituality and neoliberal capitalism through an examination of the global yoga and self-care industries...
36 min
1718
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
85 min
1719
Ani Maitra, "Identity, Mediation, and the Cunni...
The politics of identity have played center stage in many political debates in the last few years, and is often seen somewhat pejoratively as an epiphenomenal manifestation of the dynamics of capitalism....
72 min
1720
Daniela Vallega-Neu, "Heidegger's Poietic Writi...
Looking at Heidegger’s writing from 1936-1942, Vallega-Neu’s text is an excellent guide through this incredibly difficult period of Heidegger’s thinking...
63 min
1721
Eithne Quinn, "A Piece of the Action: Race and ...
Quinn explores the transitional years following the civil rights movement of the 1960s, in order to chart the struggle by Black film makers for rights, recognition and representation....
45 min
1722
David Vine, "The United States of War: A Global...
Since its founding, the United States has been at peace for only eleven years...
63 min
1723
Betty Rojtman, "The Fascination with Death in C...
Rojtman analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence...
39 min
1724
Lisa Adkins, et al., "The Asset Economy" (Polit...
Inheritance, they claim, is no longer a 19th-century-style transmission of property titles after death but a “strategically timed transfer of funds that need to be leveraged and put to work in the speculative logic of the asset economy”....
30 min
1725
Christine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Mi...
Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.”
56 min